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TIL Turbotax, an American tax filling company, invested money in lobbying to keep tax return filling as confusing as possible, ensuring customers for their business.

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XEoJP TIL Charles S. Dutton went from "jail to Yale." While in solitary he picked up an anthology of black playwrights. He convinced the warden to start a drama group, later earning a Master's degree in acting from Yale. He has starred in films by David Fincher, Robert Altman, and Guillermo del Toro.
4XJb5 TIL Pope Callixtus III might have excommunicated Halley's Comet from the church in 1456
E1eMW TIL that scientist Peter Turchin predicted in a 2012 article that the next apocalypse is in 2020, not 2012.
0wb5N TIL there are 22 Belgian exclaves in the Netherlands which then contain 7 exclaves of the Netherlands within them.
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